Development
Green Award develops and maintains the requirements in house and the Board of Experts keeps the requirements under review to ensure they keep pace with developments in the industry and regulatory worlds and retain their relevance. For example, the latest (currently applicable) requirements contain exhaust emissions related items which is a hot issue at the moment. These include both a participation in the ESI, which is now mandatory for obtaining the Green Award certificate, and items that resulted from the extensive research carried out by the Green Award bureau used for the ranking score. The bureau has also recently developed a new set of requirements for chemical tankers on the basis of detailed consultations with the industry.